“Love doesn’t come when it’s convenient…It crashes into your life when you least expect it”.
But, after Zara and Jay are constantly thrown together at the singles table during the wedding season, Jay becomes inexplicably drawn to Zara’s spunky and untamed personality and Zara comes to crave the comfortable stability that is Jay. When their sexual attraction becomes undeniable, Zara and Jay put their deal on hold to have a fling…but will they be able to keep love off the table? The Singles Table is the third book in Sara Desai’s Marriage Game trilogy but, although it would probably enhance your reading experience, you don’t need to have read the first two books before you read The Singles Table. This book is a sexy and fun romance novel featuring the enemies to lovers, opposites attract, and grumpy with sunshine tropes. I highly recommend this book to lovers of romance novels like Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert, It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey, Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese, and The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. The Singles Table deals with themes such as chaos and order, darkness and light, love and heartbreak, companionship, family, loneliness, quest for power, mental health, self preservation, work-life balance, and war. The moral of this story is that everyone is worthy of love and love is worth the risk of heartbreak. Also, the characters discover that, “life is short and you have to live your truth, embrace your joy, and pursue your dreams”. I loved Zara and Jay’s relationship in this book; the grumpy with sunshine trope paired with Jay’s “you touch her, and I’ll kill you” protective attitude about Zara was very intriguing and engaging to read. I also enjoyed the humorous elements sprinkled throughout this book including Zara’s quirky coworkers and clients (including a boss who carries a lightsaber and a client who impersonates a tiger) as well as Zara’s clumsy and rebellious antics (such as chasing after Lin-Manuel Miranda for an autograph and shooting Jay in the butt with a paintball gun). On the negative side, I was disappointed that a fair amount of the plot was dedicated to Zara’s Aunties’ matchmaking competition as, in my opinion, this wasn't very entertaining to read about (especially in comparison to Zara and Jay's exciting love story). I also thought that this book was slightly slow to start and was a bit challenging for me to get into; but, once Zara and Jay’s attraction to each other becomes irrefutable, the story gets a lot more engaging. Lastly, even though it is undeniably pretty, I wasn’t a huge fan of the cover art because I didn’t feel like it fit Zara’s wild personality. Overall, The Singles Table exceeded my expectations, and I would highly recommend it to fellow romance readers! I gave this book a rating of 9 out of 10. This article was written for "The Nerd Daily". Click here to view this article on "The Nerd Daily's" website or copy & paste the following URL into your web browser: https://bit.ly/3HQXhmL
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